Faces in Still Waters

At the tender age of eleven Kara Frazer’s world was turned upside down when her baby brother perished in a tragic fire, which will haunt her for the rest of her life. Now twenty, along with the guilt from his passing, his death still plagues her. More

At the tender age of eleven Kara Frazer’s world was turned upside down when her baby brother perished in a tragic fire, which will haunt her for the rest of her life. Now twenty, along with the guilt from his passing, his death still plagues her. Upon her arrival to Michigamme, where she moved with her morally flexible best friend Samantha, she is confronted by the grisly ghost of a young boy along with a swarm of fireflies – the harbingers of death. In the murky depths of the lake where she met the young ghost, Kara discovers spirits blackened with resentment and becomes haunted by their vengeful demeanors. Reflections begin to appear to Kara on the lake’s surface but these are no normal reflections, they are echoes from beyond this world. Echoes of death’s which have yet to happen, death’s which Kara is destined to stop.

Kara is left with two choices; save the souls destined to spend eternity at the bottom of the lake or succumb to its evil herself and become as black and hateful as the souls that reside within it. From the complexities of friendship, the lure of the older man, to the extent one would go to for self-preservation; Faces in Still Waters captures the consequences of holding onto guilt. “There’s a bit of darkness in everyone’s heart and it sneaks up on us at the most inopportune moments, when we are at our most vulnerable. Our guilt consumes us with its acidic nature and eats away at the soul.”